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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Short SF/F That's Actually Good (plus Haikus!)

So you probably read my twopart interview with Paul Kincaid by now. (If not, go read it now--his answers are really worth your time. Also read the LA Review article that kicked it all off.) You may, as a result, feel a bit down on SF/F. Maybe you should, as Jonathan McCalmont, M. John Harrison and Paul McCauley all suggest, or take it as a call to arms, like Alastair Reynolds. Obviously all of us just want the best for the genre, and being critical is a big part of that. But I'd like to stress the positive for a day, and point to some stories I've read over the past few years that, to me, signal good things to come for the genre. In true nerds_feather fashion, I present you a list of 6...with a haiku for each:

6. Geoffrey Landis, "Sultan of the Clouds" [Asimov's, September 2010.]